David J. Powell:  

Life My life biography. Wow, what can I say? After highschool I went on tour for the summer with the Grateful Dead and then off to college. I went to a 2 year school in upstate New York and got an Associates. After that I went to S.U.N.Y. Plattsburgh and got my B.A. in psychology. I didn't do very well in High School so I felt like had to redeem myself in college, and so I did by graduating with honors and going on to Graduate School. Thats right check out the big brain on me. Well, more like tenacity than brains. I studied to become a therapist at a place called John F. Kennedy University, a private school near Berkeley, CA. (Incidentally JFK and I share the same birthday and wedding anniversary. Uncanny.) It was a great experience and an expensive one too as I chose to pay for it with student loans (this is where the tenacity over brains part comes in). I could have gone to Ohio State with a full ride but chose otherwise. Oh well, we all make our decisions and live with the consequences. And, you're going to love this... I didn't finish the degree! Some would say, thanks to the phenomenon I like to call "unsolicited advice/opinion", and they have said that I wasted my money. But I disagree. (I was going to "beg to differ" but begging is so unbecoming). I may not have the paper but I still have the education and psychology can be applied everywhere, especially because of the nature of my training. I went through two and a half years of accademic study and finally got to the clinic... Let me tell you book psychology and applied psychology are very different. Books are so clear cut: If this then that, repeat if necessary. Applied... well what do you do when your clients tell you about countless atrocities committed against them? Eventually this kind of thing gets to you. Faced with a life...Expand for more